Usually means: Floating glacier extension on sea.
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  1. ice shelf: Merriam-Webster
  2. ice shelf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ice-shelf, ice-shelf, ice shelf: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ice shelf: Vocabulary.com
  5. ice-shelf: Wordnik
  6. ice-shelf, ice shelf: Wiktionary
  7. ice shelf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. ice shelf: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ice shelf: Dictionary.com
  10. Ice shelf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ice shelf: Rhymezone
  12. ice shelf: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ice shelf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. ice shelf: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ice shelf: Encyclopedia

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  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ice shelf)

noun:  A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.

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